From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, tglx@linutronix.de, shemminger@vyatta.com,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: OFT - reserving CPU's for networking
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 00:44:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272757457.27948.27.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100501.150338.93457735.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:03 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 12:53:04 +0200
>
> >> And we don't want it to, because the decision mechanisms for steering
> >> that we using now are starting to get into the stateful territory and
> >> that's verbotton for NIC offload as far as we're concerned.
> >
> > Huh? I thought full TCP offload was forbidden?[1] Statefull as in NIC
> > (or someone else like netfilter) tracking flows is quite common and very far
> > from full offload. AFAIK it doesn't have near all the problems full
> > offload has.
>
> We're tracking flow cpu location state at the socket operations, like
> recvmsg() and sendmsg(), where it belongs.
>
> Would you like us to call into the card drivers and firmware at these
> spots instead?
I'm interested in experimenting with this at some point, since our
hardware supports a fairly large number of filters that could be used
for it.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-02 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-23 8:12 [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Changli Gao
2010-04-23 9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-23 22:02 ` jamal
2010-04-24 14:10 ` jamal
2010-04-26 14:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 14:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 21:06 ` jamal
[not found] ` <20100429174056.GA8044@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 17:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 18:10 ` OFT - reserving CPU's for networking Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-29 19:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-29 20:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 18:15 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 18:57 ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-30 21:01 ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-30 22:30 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 10:53 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 22:03 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 22:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 23:29 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 23:44 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-05-01 20:31 ` Martin Josefsson
2010-05-01 22:13 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <20100429182347.GA8512@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 19:12 ` [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Eric Dumazet
[not found] ` <20100429214144.GA10663@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-30 5:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:38 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 11:00 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 6:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 9:20 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 10:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 14:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 14:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 15:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 19:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 22:06 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 3:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 5:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 10:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 10:34 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 14:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 14:45 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-04 1:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 15:52 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-04 1:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 15:46 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 16:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 17:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:25 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 21:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:54 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 22:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 20:15 ` jamal
2010-04-26 21:03 ` jamal
2010-04-23 10:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:08 ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:18 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2x: Remove two prefetch() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:19 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 13:14 ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-04-28 15:44 ` Eliezer Tamir
2010-04-28 16:53 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <w2ue8f3c3211004280842r9f2589e8qb8fd4b7933cd9756@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-28 16:55 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 11:33 ` jamal
2010-04-28 12:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 12:36 ` jamal
2010-04-28 14:06 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 21:36 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 22:22 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_queue_rcv_skb() helper Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 22:39 ` David Miller
2010-04-28 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-29 0:00 ` jamal
2010-04-29 4:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 11:35 ` jamal
2010-04-29 12:12 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-29 12:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:17 ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:37 ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:56 ` jamal
2010-04-29 20:36 ` jamal
2010-04-29 21:01 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: sock_def_readable() and friends RCU conversion Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 13:55 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 17:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:35 ` David Miller
2010-05-01 4:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 7:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 8:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 22:00 ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:30 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-30 20:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 0:06 ` jamal
2010-05-01 5:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 6:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 10:24 ` Changli Gao
2010-05-01 10:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:29 ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:23 ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:56 ` jamal
2010-05-01 13:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 13:49 ` jamal
2010-05-03 20:10 ` jamal
2010-04-29 23:07 ` Changli Gao
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